The 61-year-old deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council and deputy chief of the armed forces is considered to have been Saddam Hussein's daily right-hand man. He was born in Tikrit, the Iraqi leader's home town. He was a key commander in the suppression of the failed Shia uprising in 1991. Indict also accuses Mr Ibrahim of the use of excessive military force against the Marsh Arabs of the south. He escaped an assassination attempt in Karbala in 1998. War crimes charges have been issued against him in Austria.

I hope they remove him from the gene pool as they did QUSAY and ODAI. His mangled and crushed body would also serve as a warning for the rest of those insurgents as to what they face; public humiliation of having their dead bodies shown in the mass media.

I hope they remove him from the gene pool as they did QUSAY and ODAI. His mangled and crushed body would also serve as a warning for the rest of those insurgents as to what they face; public humiliation of having their dead bodies shown in the mass media.